Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 2001
Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock 2001
SEX WORKER ROLE
Verna Bernbaum in Miller’s Crossing 1990
Character Is A Gun Moll
Marcia Gay Harden in Miller’s Crossing 1990
“Miller’s Crossing” is a throwback to all those black-and-white film-noir gangster movies of the 1940s & 1950s. Marcia plays Verna, an opportunistic gun moll (aka prostitute.) She offers herself to a gangster in exchange for protecting her bookmaker brother, who owes money. While at the same time romancing another gangster in training.
This movie got mixed reviews with the New York Times Times writing of Harden:
She “gives the impression of being tastefully dolled up for a 1920’s masquerade party.”
Though Rolling Stone Magazine did write:
“Harden scores a most impressive screen debut.”
Watch clip from the film “Miller’s Crossing”
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